Cryptocurrency, created in 2009, was designed to be a system of payments that could not be traced, and as might be expected from the design, the early users were mostly people doing business that they wanted to keep secret (mostly criminal activity, though political activists working under ...
Free markets are very good at helping the economy function efficiently; when prices rise, profit seekers are attracted to that sector and try to cash in on the profit potential by creating supply, helping society allocate resources where the demand is. With the creation of the internet and ...
Capitalism has created more wealth than any other economic system. Material wealth is not the only measure of happiness, but conservatives are right to credit capitalism for lifting millions of people out of poverty. I understand why many people love capitalism, but it has some issues. ...
While there is no question Donald Trump won the 2024 election, it was not a landslide. Trump made gains compared to his performance in 2020 almost everywhere, even in traditionally blue states. Trump won the popular vote by less than 2%, the closest election since the contest between George ...
When Donald Trump was president, he flipped the Republican Party’s stance on free trade. Historically, Republicans had been the party of manufacturers and favored tariffs to protect their industries from foreign competition. After World War II, when the manufacturing bases of our ...
Donald Trump is not your usual politician, and unfortunately that is not a compliment. Politicians speak a lot in public and sometimes make mistakes or purposefully spin the truth, so there will be times when a politician says things that are not true. But most politicians, when caught ...
